I wasn't familiar with Messiah until just now... it looks pretty interesting. Since I can use my Poser content without modification in Carrara for now, I'll probably stick with that and try to learn MOCCA as I go along, and try to use it in the future. I'm really trying to stick to my guns and not buy any more software this year.

I've got most of the models for my next one done, including morph targets. I bought two models and I've got one other one. I'm going to try to do some simple rigs for a couple of trees, but I'm not sure how that's going to turn out. If I can't get it to work out right, there is a nice plant primitive in Carrara I might be able to look at.

I still have to make my landscape and a couple more small models (no rig or morphs) and do some texturing. I think I'll be able to start animating by next weekend at the latest, which puts me ahead of schedule for February. "Ahead-of-Schedule" moments are ones I savor, since they come along so infrequently in life.